Scheananigans with Scheana Shay - A Novul Musician

Episode Date: November 6, 2018

Musician Novul joins Scheana and friend/co-host Janet Elizabeth to talk about her new music, the fun of shooting music videos, where Scheana and her met, and what the future holds. PLUS! She unveils a few new poems that could become new songs! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Janet co-hosting with me today. She's always sitting on the other side of the window. So today I'm giving her headphones and a microphone. Moving on up. Yep. And we have the gorgeous and talented novel sitting across from us. How are you? Great? Thanks for having me Um, can we talk about this hair? Thank you. I love it. Please tell me it's a wig. Okay, it's a way Okay I can do the whole I just saw you at the nail salon and you didn't have that but see now I can borrow this Look, right? It's honestly I used to have like like really fire like red hair and i wanted

to go back and then my stylist was like you know you're you've been black hair for so long like this will just strip your hair i'm like yeah like try a wig i was like uh all right he's like there's really good ones no it looks amazing i'm only saying that because i just saw you otherwise i would have just thought it was your hair so sorry i'm not calling you out i just think it looks no i'll call it out i think i was blonde this summer for a night and everyone thought that it was actually my hair because it looked so good with like the lace front and the part and everything i know i actually in my music video boys like you i had like three wig changes i wore this one a purple one yeah they're like wait she's not blonde anymore like i think that was a wig because i just saw it in the music video

we're gonna play that song in a bit too. Awesome. Kayla just did her hair like this. Oh. Yeah. I love that. One of my girlfriends in Vegas, she kind of, I mean, you and I look similar. I know. I think people think we're like sisters. Yeah. Like, I posted a photo last year of us. It was my birthday and I was like, my little mini me. I know. I love that. Yeah. I remember the first

time we met, we like connected instantly. Yeah. Oh, totally. She and I are friends. Yeah. Yeah. So my friend Kayla, she's like our triplet but she actually just did this to her hair yeah so but looks good thanks girl all right so we've known each other what like a year and a half now yeah met you through lala yeah through lala and all the vanderpump gang yeah i actually had a show in vegas that's where i met them all. Okay. And they all came. That's right.

I couldn't remember how you met everyone. Yeah, they were performing. Then they came to my show. And then we ended up meeting later and we just had a good connection. Yeah. Made a lot of talk about similar stuff. I'm sure. Yeah.

Good times. That was the first thing I wanted to say, how we met. Okay. So, I mean, I know this, but just for my listeners. So, just tell me where you grew up and how long you've been out here in la so i'm from a really small town in canada called paradise so saskatchewan literally like prairie farmers like 500 people everybody knows everybody and um i always like wanted to be in entertainment and luckily you know my family believed in me and they helped like you know my dreams come true. And I graduated.

I was flying to Toronto back and forth for training during all through, like, middle school, high school. And then I graduated and I just, like, I'll just come out to L.A. So I've been out here about five years now. Awesome. Yeah, everyone's like, you're a Cali girl now. Yeah, totally. In a small town in Canada. No.

I know. That's so funny because everyone back home was like, you never really belonged here. And I was like, I know. So did you just like move out here right after high school? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, because you're so young. I swear.

I feel like I'm always the oldest person in the room these days. You look so young now. You always think you're older than you are. Whatever. Okay. So you have a new single out. Boys Like You. Let's talk about that.

Okay. Where'd the inspiration come from? Well, relationship, obviously. Yeah, but like... Bad boys in general. Tell us the backstory. Okay, the backstory is I've been going in the studio. We were writing, working on tracks, and I had a session that morning, and I was literally

like in my shower. I know people are always like, you're so stupid, but I literally was in my shower, and I was just thinking, like, why did girls like me like boys like you like the bad boys like we're such the good girls and you know i've had a bunch of my friends come up like why do i do this why do i do that and i was like this is such a good topic like why do girls like me love boys like you the bad boys and like what's wrong with me so it's basically just calling up you know calling them out you know that i'm over it it's just like a an emotional roller coaster basically you know i want you and then i don't want that i'm over it it's just like a an emotional roller coaster

basically you know i want you and then i don't want you and then the end it's like i'm just as fucked up too i don't know are we allowed to swear on here yeah okay i had a radio interview and they were like in the background be like no profanity i was like oh my god i'm so sorry no here you can say whatever okay so it's basically just like you you know, the bad boy, you know, relationships. And I'm getting a lot of amazing feedback, which is so good. With art, I always get so, like, scared. Like, oh, my God. Like, how are people going to feel about it?

What are they going to think? But in the end, it's like I write all my stuff and I had a great team behind it. And so I'm really excited. Yeah. The video is awesome. It's so hot. Thank you. Yeah.

I shot that with riveting entertainment riveting and it's awesome because you know they believe in independent i'm independent artists that they feel is like the next big wave and they they really believed in me and i've come up with all my music video visuals and um but this one actually was from chancellor um the director and he totally like was like i know like we met and he totally was like, I know you. We met and we just had this connection. He understood me. He was a dope director.

I would sit down. I was very hands-on in the project, behind the camera, everything. But yeah, it turned out pretty steamy. It's like American beauty meets toxic. Yes. Literally, with the different wig changes and stuff. That's so funny because everyone's like, you're like a dark version of bernie's spirit that's exactly what that video the

vodk if they give me that american beauty scene yeah laying in the flowers and everything i was like wow this is sexy and then you got out with like the leash and fishnets and like collar and i was like oh yeah i was like she's gonna do it yeah so the whole roses was just kind of like showing me of like my innocence and roses represent love, you know, and your fallen love. So basically that's why we did the whole rose scene into like falling into his bad boy world. And actually I have a new single coming out in like, I think 15 days or something. It's called amateur and we shot the music video for that.

And it's a continuation from boys Like You into amateur music video. We shot it the same day. It was a 17-hour day shoot. And it was so much fun. Wow. And you got it all in the one day? All in one day. We actually cut early.

It was actually really good. Everyone was working so good. Everyone was hands-on. It was a really fun day. That's amazing. Thanks, yeah. I'm going to do my first music video soon. Let's do it.

I'm really excited. Oh, my God. I can't wait to see it. I just recorded two new songs. I was telling you. You were telling me. Yeah. So I caught a cold when I was in Chicago last week, so my voice is not all the way back yet, but I have to finish the second one, and then I'm like, oh, my God, I can't wait

to do a video. I can't wait to hear it. So what advice do you have for me or any new artist just starting out, doing a video? Because I've never done a music video before. I've done a ton of television, obviously. I would say definitely do like your research on directors. Just so you connect with people that like see your vision. When I first met with a couple directors, my very first music video,

I was like, this is what I want. And they were just like, one person totally was like, ah, you're a little weird. Like, I don't understand your vision. They don't understand me. Like, you know, so you really want someone that can understand your vision so you get the right like visuals and it's not like oh well i was visualizing something different right so definitely find like someone as a director that believes in your vision and just be you don't try to be like everybody else that's one thing with my music videos i try to do like everyone is like a story

in my life like my first music video was give me 20 it's a very with my music videos. I try to do like, everyone is like a story in my life. Like my first music video was Gimme 20. It's a very comical music video where I go into an old folks home and I show my sexuality. So that shows

the funny side of me. Then I had a music video called All I Want to Be is Loved and I basically turned out to be a serial killer. The guy who does American Horror Story.

Yeah, the guy who does American Horror Story. Wait, I need to watch all of these. Yeah, so the guy that does American Horror Story, he fell in love with the project. He came and made them look all frozen.

It was pretty. It was a two-day shoot. That's so cool. So as it pans out, it's like my obsessive over love. So that shows my craziness, my obsessive over love. Then I did a single called All This Time, which shows me finding myself again and my carefree and being a kid again. And then now this music video which shows my

passion my my diva-ness like that and then I have a new one come out called amateur so it's like a little story of everything do you feel like you have a lot of different inspirations and artists like because all of those themes are so different and you know are such a different personality do you feel like you are constantly like inspired by different artists or is there do you have like your go-to favorites i mean i'm always inspired by other artists but i definitely like i grew up like i love share she's she's a big inspiration i mean i love gaga i mean halsey's dope um for sure i mean i can see like all of that like you're like a combination of everything you're saying thanks yeah I'm really excited for this new single too, Amateur,

because I think it's going to show a side of me that people haven't really shown. I'm singing my lower register vocals, and it's just like a sober kind of feel, but it's still got a groove to it. Cool. Stay for a tune for that one. Yes.

Okay, well, I want to play for my listeners your current one that's out, Boys Like You. My favorite drug, the poison on red tongues. The lies you're telling me, they hide what's underneath. I hate the way I like your dangerous. Telling myself that you're special, but making my bed with the devil. I should just leave you alone. Telling myself that you're special, but making my bed with the devil. I should just. Thank you. Every time you leave, you're hard to lose. But I always let you come back around. I love it. Thank you.

It's so catchy. That's one of those songs that you're like, when you hear it, you're like, you know that one bad boy you're thinking of. Yeah. Oh. When you hear something like that, you're like, mm-hmm. Uh-huh. Yeah, definitely. We all have that one.

So can you get that on iTunes, Spotify? Yeah, it's all on iTunesunes spotify amazon everywhere and it's playing in canada radio so shout out canada radio for supporting exciting yeah i was just in iceland with my friends from toronto actually oh my gosh i know i love toronto i haven't been out there still it's like on my bucket list of cities i need to visit. Toronto's really pretty. Yeah. I'm from more of the prairies, so. We got a lot of cows. So surprising. It's so crazy, right? When you, like, some of, like, the most, like, talented, like, edgy people are from, like, these little, like, farm towns. That's crazy. So, okay, yeah, going back to, so we're neighbors. We're both, like, Marina area. And I ran into her at the nail salon. Love your nails.

I like this. It's like a slate gray. I actually got a really funny story about these nails. Okay. Do tell. The girl, like I went and got a new pair since the last time I saw you. And you know how they like pick your nails off? Oh yeah.

Yeah. She full on like ripped my whole nail off. Oh no. Girl, like I literally was sweating. I was like. Oh my God. I literally, I was like like i never make a scene i literally had to like tell the manager like i'm like i'm sorry i'm sorry but they're like

yeah literally it was a hole like i facetimed my friends they couldn't believe it was bleeding and she's like oh no your nail and i was like and i was like oh my god just like i hope you got that manny for free oh my god i was like then did you put acrylic over it? I did because she's like, come back. I said, I have a photo shoot tomorrow. I can't. So I literally was like stinging. Like, beauty is pain. Legit.

Keep an eye on it because that happened to me before. I wasn't getting my nails done. I was actually moving my ex-husband out of our apartment. And I'm like pushing this big bin out i'm like upset and i'm just like he like left all of the stuff that i then had to move out for him so i'm pissed so i'm like shoving it out the door and like it hits the door it bends my nail back and it just ripped oh my gosh it literally i'm not joking took a year to grow back well i i don't even know what i'm gonna do with it yeah i feel like I should just cut my finger and fuck that. I mean, I probably should.

And what was ironic was it was my ring finger that it happened to. So for a year, every time I got my nails done, I just had to think about why it looked like that. But it was like bad. Like I won't go into detail, but it just, it didn't look pretty once I took the nail off. Yeah.

So you gotta keep an eye on that. But yeah, one thing that with these, I always have to carry tweezers in my purse because sometimes with the credit cards, you know, it'll get stuck. I legit had to ask someone walking by, excuse me, can you pull my card? That happened to me numerous times in Vegas.

So I was at the MGM once and I'm like trying to, and it won't. And so these people are walking by and I'm like, MGM once and I'm like trying to, and it won't. And so I, these people are walking by and I'm like, can you please help? I'm sorry. Like my nails. Yeah. And they pulled out for me and walk away. I'm like, thank you.

And then I look, but it didn't charge it yet. I was like, no. So I had to put it back in and get another person. It was hell. And there was another time I was pulling out of a different structure and it was like this line behind me. I'm like, unless someone's going to get, I, it was just stuck. So now I always carry tweezers a little girl with long nails

Yeah, because then you can just have them so embarrassing please never use your tweezers Yeah, I'm also I just want to send a reminder out there for everyone to get out there and vote if you haven't done it yet go there's still time the polls are still open so go vote anyway that was just my little psa campaign um so west side living what's your favorite thing to do on the west side i mean i love to go for hikes where do you go hiking oh in malibu okayu. Oh, okay. Malibu is pretty. I just learned surfing. That's pretty cool. Wow. And I'm pretty adventurous.

People don't expect that, too. Yeah. What's the most adventurous thing you've done? Have you skydived? No, but my friends are like, let's do that. I don't know if I could do that. Really? I have a lot of kind of anxiety as it is flying.

I feel like I could do it, but then when I'm up there, I don't know. Have you done it? No, that's like top of my bucket list of things to do. Maybe we'll go together. Yeah. But I want to do it, like, in Hawaii. Like, if I'm possibly not going to survive, I want to be looking at paradise. That's a good point.

I've been in a helicopter over Maui, and it was so gorgeous. Like, looking out, I was like, okay, I would be okay jumping out of this right now. Like, if this is what my last moments are going to be. I always, like, think, though, like, is it scarier skydiving or bungee jumping? See, I've bungee jumped, and I've jumped off the stratosphere in Vegas. You are a rebel. Oh, yeah. No, I'm very adventurous, too.

Maybe I should write girls like you. Yeah, but I still, I haven't skydived yet. So, I don't know what would be scarier. But the bungee, what was so scary about it is when it rips you up because you don't know exactly when it's going to pull. And so you jump and you're just free falling. Then all of a sudden it's like whiplash and then you go and then it's just like up and down.

Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I was 18. My mom dared me. We were at the L.A. County Fair. I love your mom. She's like, I dare you to bungee jump. She's like, you won't do it. She's like, if you do it, I'll pay for it. And I was 18. My mom dared me. We were at the L.A. County Fair. I love your mom. I know. She's like, I dare you to bungee jump. She's like, you won't do it. She's like, if you do it, I'll pay for it.

And I was like, done. She's like, wait, really? So we did. We have it on video, too. Most moms are like, do not do that. Your mom's like, I dare you. She's like, do it. Have you ever been to any, like, escape rooms out here in L.A., speaking of fun things to do?

No, I haven't done one of those escape rooms. Have you? I want to check it out, though haven't done one of those escape rooms. Have you? I want to know. I want to check it out. It freaks me out. I don't know. I feel like I'd get claustrophobic. Yeah,

but I mean, it's not real. Like if you're having a panic attack, they're not going to like be like, figure it out. Find the key. Okay. But if you don't want to be stuck in a room doing that,

I want to tell you guys about this thing. It's called Hunt a Killer. I just got it in the mail. Yeah. So if you don't want to be locked in a room by yourself or with a group of friends somewhere foreign, you can do this. So one of my friends just told me about it. It's a monthly subscription where you actually become a detective immersed in the murder mystery. Ooh. Yeah, so you can do it from home. I love that. Yeah.

It's like Dateline in real life. Yeah, no, seriously. Each month, it's a different fictional serial killer, so it's not Ted Bundy stuff. Your favorite? Yeah. Wait, Zac Efron's playing Ted Bundy in a movie. Oh, I didn't know that.

I know, I just heard that. But the serial killer, they send you these cryptic clues, objects, letters letters so you can actually use them to solve the crime in real time yeah like it's interactive so it feels real but you're in a safe space so you're not locked in a bunker on sunset use your investigative stocking skills yeah so again it's called hunt a killer you can play it solo you can do it as a date night you can do it as a group fun game night. I had game night last night. What games did you play?

Oh, my God. So many. So this is top of the list. We started really early so we could get through a lot of games. So we had this. We had Life Size Jenga. We had Life Size Connect 4. We had Cards Against Humanity.

And we ended it with Scattergories. Oh, fun. Yeah, it was fun. That's a lot. Yeah. And the cool thing with this, this too is you can join their online community so you can like work with other people who are at the same point in the story as you fine yeah i gotta get it so far over 60 000 people have joined hunt a killer's online community

and they have over a thousand five-star customer reviews so yeah and right now for my listeners you can go to huntakilla.com slash sheena for 10% off your first box they only accept 200 members per day so hurry and take advantage of this offer that's huntakiller.com slash sheena for 10% off your first box i was saying huntakilla but I'm a killer. Yeah, so speaking of adventures, that's a cool thing. Yeah. How long, okay, did you start doing music like when you were a kid? Because I know you were on TV when you were really young, right? Yeah, my first live performance, I was, I think, eight years old. It was for this huge thing to raise money for cancer.

It's called Tell a Miracle. Gloria Lorien hosts it. So Robin Thicke's mom. thing to raise um money for cancer it's called tell a miracle gloria lorian hosted okay um so robin thick's mom and she just like fell in love with me you have to audition for it and i was the only one picks and i did a private um breakfast um performance for them for all the real artists but i started dancing since i was three competitively five ballet tap jazz lyrical always wanted to do it and I always wanted to sing but my mom was like she can't sing like nobody in my family knows how to sing so literally it was my brother's hockey game midwest um and they're like we're looking for an anthem singer

and I was like I'll do it like I was like you sang the national anthem oh my god my mom was like my mom was like no let's go practice with grandma first and my grandma was like she's got some good pipes on her like little girl so I used to shut all make them shut all the lights off in the whole arena and I would sing because I get so scared so little that's so and I got known as singer in the dark when I was little that's so cute that's like mysterious yeah and so from there I did the telemiracle and then from there I was singing for the NHL hockey team was 18,000 people. I was 13 years old. Oh, my God. I sang the American and the Canadian.

And that was my first. That was my biggest crowd ever. Wow. I mean, of course. Yeah. Huge thing. Live television. So from there, I just went, you know, into musical theater.

And, you know, people are starting to come up to my parents. You know, I think you should really, you know, you know, pursue this if she really loves it. And I loved it. Yeah. I would song write at home like you know I think you should really you know you know pursue this if she really loves it and I I loved it yeah I would song write at home you know write poems and then from there I started like you know flying to Toronto and training with Shania Twain's vocal coach out there and so he was helping me and then from there I ended up going to LA and I'd start flying to LA like once a month and coming out here. And then I graduated and I was like, I'm just going to all do it. Yeah. So that, that was my little backstory. That's so cool. See, I didn't know any of that. Yeah. Oh my, I mean, I'm, I say I'm a performer. I'm not a singer. Oh my God. I would never sing the national anthem. It was funny. My dad was like pacing

back and forth and he was like, if you, if you mess up, they will boo you. I'm like, dad, you're making me nervous. I was like this little 13-year-old. I would rather like throw out the first pitch of a game. Yeah. I mean, even some of the best singers still butcher the national anthem. I mean, Fergie, did you see hers? It's like, she's an amazing singer.

Yeah. But never change the national anthem. Don't try and make it your own. I agree. I totally agree. It's the national anthem. 100%. 100% on that. Sing it how it's supposed to be sung. Whenever people try and change it. own it's the national anthem 100 100 on that sing it how it's

supposed to be sung whenever people try and change it oh my god my grandpa oh i miss my grandpa but he used to get so annoyed when people would change the national anthem like he would like walk out of the room if they like were messing up the song i mean it's a hard song to sing it in its own yeah changing it yeah i feel like too like i would start saying like the wrong part like, I would start saying, like, the wrong part, like, too early and be like, wait, I'm not at this part yet. Like, I would need a teleprompter. Yeah. Even though I know it and I've been singing it since I was a kid.

Like, that would be, like, my biggest fear. When you get up there in front of everybody, yeah. And then if you butcher it, you're really, really screwed after that. Well, I don't think anyone's ever going to ask me to sing the National Anthem, so I think I'm good. But, yeah, I do have to play you my new songs. I want to hear it. Because I feel like our like music vibe is similar.

We've got to collaborate. Yeah, that would be so fun. Let's do it. Oh my God. A music video together. That would be so dope. We'll do like twin stuff. I know.

It could be the evil twin. Yes. That'd be sick. Which one of us is the evil one, Janet? I don't know. That's a good question. I feel like today. Evil and how so? Looking or deep soul? Rightet i don't know that's a good question i feel like today evil and how so looking are deep soul right i don't know oh yeah i'm not gonna get in trouble

today yeah that would be fun got a collab i like it um have you toured so i actually toured like all last year i was doing all the lgbt's LA Pride New York and you did Vegas right I did Vegas I did San Diego I performed at Avalon so but then this year I was like all in the studio working now um this beginning year I dropped these two singles they're promoting them right now and so beginning year I had my first show um January 10th the day after my birthday and performing at Sayers Club oh that's so if you're in town in LA, come check it. January 10th. Yeah, you're gin. Come check it out. Amazing. At Sayers.

At Sayers, and yeah. That's a cool little spot to perform to. I've been to events there. Yeah, it's very intimate. Yeah. That's what I'm starting out with. I don't think I've ever been there. Yeah. You haven't? No, actually. No, it's like a club, but then they have like a room where, yeah, it can be either.

But you can have a DJ there or you can have like a band and like a piano. Fun. Who would be your dream artist to collab with? Ooh. Honestly, well, I love Lady Gaga, but I love like art pop Lady Gaga. Okay. Like 2000s Lady Gaga. Like poker face Lady Gaga?

Yeah. I love that. But there's this new artist. He's brand new. His name's NF. He's like the next, he sounds like Eminem. Like legit.

I've seen him on the Music Choice Station. Yes. Because I thought it was an Eminem song and I came out of my room and I was like, who is this? He's just so raw and he spits like no other. He speaks the truth.

And I just feel like we could be the next Rihanna Eminem. Like, come on. Yeah. So I'm really putting that out in the energy. I mean, because he's upcoming. I mean, he's already popping. Put it out there. Put it out there.

You never know. I think NF featuring novel would be pretty dope. Oh, my God. That sounds dope already. Yeah. I love that. I think that'd be cool. I always love collaborating with rappers.

Yeah. For sure. Your music seems like it would just go really well with like a rap verse. You could throw something in there. Yeah. I have this song. I actually wrote this poetry. I write really dark poetry.

Really? I could read you one if you wanted. Yeah. But I wrote a song out of it. It's called Start Again. And I'm actually, people are like, you need to, what does it say? Hold on. Sorry.

But I wrote a song, and I want to put a rapper on it. But this poem is called 3 a.m. Cigarettes. I literally wrote this in 10 minutes as the guy was laying beside me. So you don't want to put James Kennedy on it? All right. It's called, it says, I lay here while you're sleeping. The smell of last night's 3 a.m. cigarettes linger my bedroom. All right, it's called, it says, Both young kids broken inside. I'm on a test, but something is missing. Maybe it's a thought of the unknown. Is it worth all this risking? We needed some time. Timing is a problem.

We keep having this urge to keep seeing each other. What is it about you? I have no clue. Maybe your eyes, your tattoos. The ups and downs we feed are addiction. Our love for each other could just be fiction. I stare at you while you sleep. God, why do you got to be so cute?

Maybe I should disappear, become mute. You just awoke. Your back was to me. You're rolling over. I pause for a moment. One, two, three. You give me that look. You're smiling at me. I think it's time to get up and make some coffee. Wow. Oh, my God. just awoke your back was to me you're rolling over i pause for a moment one two three you give me that look you're smiling at me i think it's time to get up and make some coffee wow oh my god

i love that thank you i wish i was snapchatting that i might make you do that again after the show i have another one that's called hectic treasures but yeah i don't have to read it but um if it's anything like the other one i know that was so dope yeah this one's called hectic treasures i try not to look at my phone at our memories if i delete them i'll be deleting a part of me i love you mc i look past your past i knew the better you but now i have no clue i wanted to be your angel no you truly cared for me but i wonder i tried to understand your deep demons they came out in different regions i put myself through a lot but it's worth it i wanted to unlock you set you free be your key but now i wonder would you don't offer me you wanted to get better They came out in it together. See, that's where I struggle. It's like putting your dog in a muzzle. You can't do that. It will turn into a trap.

I feel you didn't give us all 100. You did me here. You love me here. You did me there. One so cold I couldn't bear. I don't know what you were scared of. Maybe it's the word love or sticking together. I wonder. Do you miss me? Was your heart wanting to be free? Not have it just for me? Have one over and not have it be me? I wish we could be normal, but then again it sounds too formal. I wish you were proud of me, but'll keep moving i want to succeed i'm just reminiscing you and me it's sad to me you want us gone like we're debris anyways i just wanted to say i hope you hold on to our precious adventures because to me they're perfect technic treasures wow that's so dope thanks i know so many people are like you need a publishes so yeah y'all just got a sneak

peek of my stuff i was gonna say will this will these become songs is that how you typically start is with a poem and then so usually yeah and or like sometimes i'll just like full-on just their melody with chords or sometimes they already we already have like the track already kind of together so i'll write to that yeah but sometimes i just like to like have my poetry but the start again the first one i wrote a song to that okay and i want to put a rapper on that one yeah it's like it's like a ballad the way you speak it's like you can hear it's like beat poetry you can hear things how it would i'm a rapper song yeah yeah you could be if you haven't already put something on a track with rap do it thanks that like that means a lot i know i feel so inspired wow thank you seriously that was so cool that was dope like i just wrote my first song and it's nothing like that i know people

don't expect how really dark and fucked up but that's just that's so good like that makes me want to work on my writing more seriously thank you yeah it's so funny my writing comes at me like waves i'll be like literally in grocery stores and i'll be like oh my god and it'll like come to me or i'll just be like at a hockey game and it'll like people look over i'm like on my phone just like leave it in a memo yeah phone yeah and then I've been doing or sometimes like sometimes I'm like sit down like I'm gonna write it's like okay nothing's coming to me so it's like so weird how it goes I think it feeds off my emotions what I'm thinking and all that stuff so I definitely want to put together like a novel like chapter one poetry pun intended intended. And like chapter one and put maybe together a little limited edition poetry.

That would be really cool. Yeah. Thank you. For sure. Wow. I'm learning so many new things about you. And I call my fans my novelties. Oh, I love that.

Oh, that's so cute. I love that. The new improved. That's cute. I don't have any fans. Just kidding. I'm your fan. What are you talking about?

That one point something million doesn't count. I still get good as gold requests. Yeah, that was really cool. Yeah, we're going to have to like get in the studio together and maybe like collab on like writing a song or something. But I've been doing that whenever I think of something. I just like leave it in a memo in my phone. Like I had a friend going through something a couple weeks ago

And I was like you just inspired the idea of a new song I need to like write it and actually sit down and just like but I feel like for me I think everyone who writes music does it differently, but for me if I hear like the melody then like words come to me, too Yeah, that's great. Do you write like i mean obviously you just wrote those lyrics or the poem but do you have a certain way that you prefer to write music i think sometimes it could be easier writing to a melody because then you can fit words in yeah otherwise it's like okay how can we you'd have to if you had the lyrics first i mean you could write to it but it's like you're kind of breaking down everything yeah i'm like okay that's too long of a sentence but if you ever like like you could be like i don't want

to go there you know yeah stuff like that yeah we've done it both ways the first one he started playing it and then just the words um you had me once before but now you lost me twice like just popped in my head and then it went with it and he was like i like that let's go with that and just that sentence and then you fed off that yeah and then we made a whole song called better without you from that one sentence yeah and it was literally from the time you pushed the first button like i watched this whole song be created isn't it beautiful it's so cool it really is like people don't understand when they go into studio like it's really like ground working up and then people get excited let's put more bass

here blah blah and then added this and then the harmonies it's a really fun yeah and i've also i've never done harmonies before and so i'm like in the booth and he's having me do all these weird things he's like trust me and i'm like but this sounds so weird he's like trust me just do it and so it's like all the harmonies i'm like no that no, that is all me. It's just like I didn't even know I could do certain things with my voice. But this guy, Sean, too, who I'm working with, he's amazing. He did like a lot of Lala's music as well. But he's also a rapper. Wow.

Well, that's great. Yeah, push yourself. Yeah. I mean, that's how you find your craft. Totally. You know, if you stay too much safe zone, then you're like, your craft just always stays the same. But you can push yourself.

Definitely. That's what makes it unique. Yeah. And this first one, the Better Without You one, it's like very different than anything I've ever done. And then the next one's like a sexy, like dance, like club, fun song. And then I'm working on another one that's going to be kind of like Britney Spears Lucky. But like, it was just a friend of mine was just like

going through a really hard time and i'm like just you know about like being out in la and not getting discouraged and like you know just like a story about making it but like starting from bottom and then being here yeah i mean it's really a hard gig you know yeah and like i feel like la people it is tough and i really want people to know that they shouldn't compare themselves to like other people that you should only really compare yourself to the old self of yourself, you know, and look back and say like, you know, I've grown this much and, you know, look back at yourself because, you know, don't compare to yourself. You don't know what people are going through.

You don't know any of that stuff. So I'm a huge believer in that and keep believing in yourself. Totally. Don't, you know, because that's what makes you, know that's true though what makes you unique and you know my family always you know encourages me to that because it's so easy to fall like why don't this happen why don't this like but you don't know people's stories and like how they got discovered or this or that and so just believe in your journey and keep keep going yeah and that's what's so hard about la is it is so competitive and everyone feels like a dime a dozen.

It's like there's a million girls who look like me auditioning for this role. Yeah. Who maybe don't have four tattoos on their fingers. There's just, but I started to get in a spot where I felt like I was like comparing myself and like competing with like even just people on my show or just people in a similar like genre of acting as me. And after moving away to vegas doing my show and then coming back i'm like i just need to worry about myself i don't need to worry about why this person got this deal or this person has this campaign like i just need to worry about what's my next yeah because you're wasting your own energy on other people when you could be working

on yourself yeah and i felt like i wasted so much time doing that that now i'm like i'm just doing me right that's great focusing and it's hard nowadays with especially with social media and everything you're always comparing yourself with everybody's highlight reel and you don't see their behind the scenes often you just see the best moments of their life and you think like wow they're doing so much stuff yeah and so much you know better than me in life and then you know you realize they also have I mean but see that's one thing that I've been trying to do more is like, even if it's just a tweet or an Instagram story, but like if I am going through something tough, like I maybe I'm not going to like post like a photo crying on my Instagram page.

But if I'm going through something like if I talk about it here, I talk about it on my Instagram story or my Snapchat because I want people to know that like they're not the only ones going through shit. And like I struggle with anxiety and like I have like, my life isn't perfect. Sure, it looks perfect on my Instagram. But when it's not, I'm having a bad day. I'm like, I like to put that out there because I feel like so many people don't do that. They only do show those happy times.

It's like, you can never take a bad photo. I'm like, oh, no, there's 30 bad photos that took me to get that one good one. Right. You want to go through my photos? Yeah. But I've been trying to just be more vulnerable and just be more open and like you know if i'm feeling this like i'm not gonna hide it and just like sugarcoat it and act like everything's sunshine and fucking rainbows because it's not that's great my friend gave me a keychain yesterday that says i'm a ray of fucking sunshine

i was like yes i am thank you i love that we went to malibu wines have you been oh yeah i have have you been i have not been i really want, my God. We should all do. Yeah. So you can do like a private tour and you can get, it's like eight people and you're on like a truck. And if you do the Malibu Wines Safari. I've seen that. I want to do that.

You can like go and hang out with Stanley the giraffe and they have like all these animals and you get drunk while hanging out with the animals. It's like, it's really cool. Then they have this one part where it's like a trailer park. But it's like these different like individual little trailers that have like different themes. Oh, okay. And like they filmed like The Bachelorette there and stuff. It's really cool.

Yeah, it is really cool. Yeah, but it was a good Sunday fun day. That looked fun. Yeah. Do you guys ever get the Sunday scaries? Speaking of Sunday fun days. Of course. You know, that feeling of impending doom.

The upcoming work week. Speaking of anxiety. I know. I woke up today and I was like, well, now I got to work. I just forget what day it is. Yeah. That is one thing in LA. Nobody has health insurance.

No one knows what day it is. And it's Thursday and they're like, it's Monday. I'm like, what? But for the people who have normal jobs, unlike us. it is and like it's Thursday and they're like it's Monday I'm like what but like you know for for the people who have normal jobs unlike us but I think everyone gets the Sunday scaries totally yeah it's like dreading your responsibilities questioning your entire existence did I spend too much money did I send a text message that I shouldn't have you know snapchat i'm like wait did i post that oh i did post that it already has like 75,000 views awesome like i drink too much this weekend you know procrastinating on something you have

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and mild euphoria. Wow. Yeah, it's all natural and it's CBD. So it's not THC. It doesn't get you high, but it has the CBD. So it's um cbd so it's not thc it doesn't get you high but it has the cbd so it's a custom formulated with 10 milligrams a blend of broad spectrum and isolate cbd as well as vitamins b12 and d3 for mood boosters i usually get a b12 shot in my butt when i'm not feeling well i haven't

i haven't done that yet but i want to try it it. It's fun. I just don't like needles. I like getting it. Yeah. You can do it. They have the- You don't have tattoos? No. Oh. Yeah. Surprisingly. B12. I always want to get one, though.

I was going to take a vitamin tea, but CBD and the B12, those are both go-tos. Yeah. CBD is a good one. Sunday Scary Gummies. B12. CBD. All natural ingredients, free of any gluten, dairy, yeast, egg, soy, peanut. So if you're on a diet.

So everyone in LA can eat them. Exactly. They can be ordered online from the website sundayscaries.com. Ship directly to your front doorstep. They also are a subscription package that have reoccurring monthly orders at a discounted rate. And right now my listeners can buy Sunday Scaries with a 10% discount and free shipping at sundayscaries.com using promo code Sheena. So that's sundayscaries.com and use promo code S-C-H-E-A-N-A. I always feel like I'm doing a cheer when I'm spelling out my name.

And it's like my mom gave me such a difficult way of spelling my name. No one ever knows how to pronounce it. Like even my Alexa says, connecting to Skianna Marie's iPhone. I'm like, it's sheena oh my god speaking of alexa you guys will appreciate this i need to tell lala i keep forgetting so the other week um when the world series was going on one of my friends was like alexa who's gonna win the world series and she had this really funny answer and i was like i wonder if my alexa will say the same thing if just all alexas are programmed to say the same or echoes whatever and so I asked it was the exact same response and so I go Alexa

who's your favorite on Vanderpump Rules and she goes well my favorite is um Lisa does that answer your question I said no Alexa it doesn't answer my question who's your favorite on Vanderpump Rules she goes well my favorite would have to be Lala no so then I was like okay every time she says a different name first it was Lisa then it was Lala no joke you guys I've asked her this 12 more times she hasn't said your name yet my favorite is Lala like she's starting to give me attitude now she stands Lala hard yeah but it was like last night um I was like you guys want to see a trick and I was like I bet you she'll say Lala. And they're like, oh, let's see, let's see. But so I asked again, and it was like, she said it in a different way that she hadn't

said it before. It was like, well, the one I like the most is Lala. And I was like, okay. I didn't realize she had an attitude. Oh, she has attitude. What? She literally gave me an attitude. You have to ask Lala who she knows at Amazon.

I know. I'll be like, who's your hookup? Right? Who'd you sweet talk over at Amazon? Seriously because I was like it makes sense for it to say Lisa. It's called Vanderpump Rules and I just thought it would say Lisa every time but it's never said Lisa again.

It's funny. Shout out to Lala and Alexa. Lala and her connections at Amazon. Seriously. Do you like the Kardashians? I do actually. Yeah. Because I feel like do people tell you you look like a Kardashian? I do, actually. Yeah. Because I feel like, do people tell you you look like a Kardashian? Oh, I get Kylie all the time.

Yeah. I'll be walking down the street like, Kylie, Kylie. And I'll be like, no. Or people are like, you look like Kylie. This wig especially reminds me of Kylie. Oh, totally. With her teal and black. Yes.

Oh, I like those Kylie hairs. I love that. She hasn't done anything super edgy like that in a while. No, now she's like a mom. I mean, I feel bad because people hate on them and I mean, oh, they're famous because of this, but I feel like that's how everyone is now. I love their show. I mean, I've seen them

in person and they're cool. They're really chill people and really cool. And they're smart business women. They are. They've built billion dollar empires. They're not something right. I mean, people gotta hate on somebody. I think their show

is just so lighthearted and funny, too, that shows, like, the behind-the-scenes of family stuff that, you know, My favorite thing about it is they talk about

the show on the show. There's no fourth wall left up anymore. Like, they'll talk about the spinoff shows. You'll see the camera crew or the audio person taking selfies for Kim

because she has carpal tunnel. Right. But, yeah, I didn't know if you were a fan because like if if i didn't like them and people told me that as often as they did i'd be so annoyed but i'm like you probably get it just as much as i do no i do the big eyes the dark hair it's like oh you look like a kardashian but i take it as a compliment i'll be a bootleg kardashian any day yeah i mean their last, their last episode, they're doing skydiving. Yeah, they did.

I'm an episode behind. One or two behind. I won't say who. It's not like a spoiler. My favorite part about that was when they're finished skydiving and they're taking a picture and they're in their harnesses still. And Scott goes, how's my bulge look to Kendall? And she goes, don't worry, I'll facetune it to make it bigger. Oh my God.

I was like, thanks, honey. I was like, didn't know you could FaceTune that, but okay. That's so funny. I gave her credit, though. I was like, what is she doing up on that plane? Because she has enough hard times flying. Oh, I know. She is sucking down.

Maybe that was a thing to get, like, past one of her fears. I think it's always people's build-ups, too. Because when you're, like, actually doing it, you're like, oh, that wasn't bad. But it's, like, this build-up. yeah when you're like actually do it you're like oh that wasn't bad but it's like this build-up yeah it kills everybody yeah what um what do you have coming up next after this amateur song oh shows i want to start you know going on shows is january 10th your first one that's my first one okay locked in stuff and so i have a bunch of other ones that we're setting up right now so that's the whole goal and i mean i'm always in the studio writing yeah i mean where do you record uh just private studios um that i work calabasas or in you know studio city they're all over but um yeah okay well i have a good one

downtown as well oh good i want to check it out and he's like oh my god he's put so much work into it like every time i go it just looks more dope there's crazy like there's all these cool lights and like these gold and black like walls it's it's really cool people go all out in their studios yeah this one person had like a full-on jacuzzi at his studio and it was that's amazing and it's cool yeah because people can customize their own places yeah tickle swim break yeah take 10 cool well i'm excited for amateur i can't wait to see another video i need to go back and watch your old videos yeah i'll send them to you yes they're all on youtube because then i can get like some inspo for mine too because i don't really know what direction i want to go yet so yeah the first one give me 20 was featured on mtv oh that's cool right on mtv hits yeah yeah

that one was really funny because I really, like, used my sexuality in transforming into these people when they're young. So there's really funny humor in it.

Like, I bite this banana. So all my fans send me funny banana themes, but yeah. It was fun. Fun shoot. Tyler Yee directed those music videos.

That one, and All I Wanna Be is Loved. Nice. He's a really big, you know, director. You know, he grew up with G-Eazy. g easy he helped create g easy and that whole brand and he believed me as an artist and i was like oh that was another thing that upcoming artist what you should do hit up directors like

you might be like oh he's too big of a director you just never know if some director will believe in you yeah or if they're a fan of vanderpump rules yeah of course duh um but i just never thought like tyler yee would like take me on yeah he's a huge director like with top rappers and all this stuff and he's just like you know what i totally believe in you and so that was really cool that's awesome and do you know logan no our friend yes okay yeah i mean that's what he does for a living yeah i know i've been wanting to hit him up, being like, come do our set design. He's done some fun sets. Really good. Yeah.

He's so talented. I don't know if he was lying or if he was being nice the other day, but he was like, yeah, he's like, so I was on set with Bruno Mars, which I know is true. And he's like, and he was asking about you and Lala and like the show and this and that. I was like, what's he really? I believe it. Yeah. I saw an Instagram story of Selena Gomez watching the show.

Oh, yeah. With the baby bottle. Yeah. And Rihanna. Rihanna. Rihanna posted a scene. I love you guys' show. Drake watches Vanderpump Girls, you guys.

Yes. I didn't know that one. So Adam and I are friends with his stylist. And he was talking to him one night about me and Adam. And he was like, oh, bullshit. You don't know them. He's like, FaceTime him. And so Adam, it's like 1 a.m.

He like wakes up in the middle of the night and sees like a text that said like, how far are you from Hidden Hills? And he's like, I don't know, whatever. Didn't see the first text that says I'm with Drake right now. He doesn't believe that I know you. FaceTime us. No. So then he like wakes up like an hour later and was like, wait, what? FaceTimes him.

He's like, dude, that was like an hour and a half ago. Like I already left. And he was like, yeah, he's like, Sheena knows him from Villa Blanca. Like he used to come in all the time and I was always his server. And he was like, oh, he knows, like he watches the show. Like him and Rihanna used to watch a show together.

I love you guys' show. What? I mean, like I knew Rihanna watched it, but and like, yeah. Yeah. Sometimes you or other people from the show be like, you want to go out? And I'm like, no, I'm like, sorry, I'm really busy. Really people from the show will be like, you want to go out? And I'm like, no. I'm like, sorry, I'm really busy.

Really? I'm at home watching them on TV on Bravo. I'm like, sorry, I'm hooked. I'm mid-episode. I can't go anywhere. It's crazy, though. Your show's coming out soon. Yeah, December 3rd.

Exciting. Yeah, December 3rd. Wow. That's going to come up really quick. Yes, it will. I know. It's Christmas time already, basically. Yeah.

You know what's funny? It was just Halloween, and the next day they were playing christmas music on the radio and i was like wow can i just wake up for my halloween episode one break your halloween costume was so dope by the way thank you that pop art superwoman art pop i did all my makeup you did that i did all my makeup wow i thought for sure you would have had to hire someone to do that that was so cool tutorial no i just looked at a photo. I mean, people are so funny. They're like, you should do makeup. Yeah.

Yeah. I really like doing like that kind of makeup though. That was, yeah, that was so. And then I did like a really scary clown. Thank you. Yeah. I liked it. Yeah.

Everybody else I feel like I know that had costumes like that that were most like the face stuff all had to pay like lots of money to have. Oh, yeah. And like hours of spray painting and face stuff. Yeah. I want to do something cool like that next year. I've never done that. Did you see the one Ariana did recently with her hand? I was with her that night. Yeah. She did like a skull

on her hand so that she could cover her mouth with it and then it like made her whole face. Yeah. Yeah. I always like to do like kind of crazy makeup and then like sexy bottom of course. Yeah. Where you look like dead but like a lot right i love that well thanks for being here thanks so much for having me and chatting with you guys check out novels new song music video boys like you follow me on instagram yes at it's

novel that's n-o-v-u-l yeah what made you change the spelling? So I released a single spark, chatted on Billboard with N-O-V-E-L. And actually, because I don't know if my real name is actually Samantha Novelin. I don't know

if you actually knew that. I knew your name's Samantha, but I didn't know Novelin was your last name. I just have you Samantha Novel in my phone. But then I changed the spelling so I was like,

I have it as an E. I swear it was an E, but now it's an E. No, I just changed it. What I was going to do with the black IP is they named me novel oh they were like you're quite the story I had all these songwritings they're really interested in me and they named me novel from novel and I thought I was like that's how I got my artist name but I just changed it because I was like rebranding my new music and I people people kept calling me novelle as weird as it was I could see so I'm like a novel maybe.

And then, I mean, I'm not competing against a million books on Google. Right. Novel. Yeah. So new name change. New year. And everyone follow Janet on Twitter. She is hilarious.

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That's interesting because that coffee filter, if you use it on the windows, it doesn't leave lint. Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah, because it's called True Car. That's interesting because that coffee filter, if you use it on the windows, doesn't leave lint. Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah. So you can remove excess weight from your car and it will improve gas mileage. Wow. Another cool thing, you can place your key fob to your chin to increase its range. What?

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